The Boomer Magazine

The Squirrels return to The Diamond Thursday – two days from today – with their second Fireworks display.  On Friday, the Soup Nazi from Seinfeld will make an appearance at the day’s game, which is also a canned food drive. Turn back your clocks on Saturday with “50’s Night and Fireworks” presented by HCA Virginia. [...]

  The Martin Agency’s Mike Hughes finds grace and humor in his last days – BY BARBAR FITZGERALD –   Mike Hughes, president of The Martin Agency, Richmond’s advertising powerhouse, was told this past December at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York that he had two weeks to live. As an old newspaperman [...]

Try a few new things this spring Say this spring you’re invited to an evening cock-tail party. Would you know what to wear? No worries – neither would we. That is why we spoke with Kevin Reardon, co-owner of Richmond-based Franco’s Fine Clothier. With a 20-year career in the clothing industry, his specialty is fitting [...]

A century-old North side home that relaxes and invigorates – BY DANIEL JONES – – PHOTOGRAPHS BY TONY GIAMMARINO –        “A cottage is meant for relaxing,” says Jennifer Saunders (left), who with her husband owns Twig, a home décor shop in Richmond’s Lakeside shopping district. “But then we like a livelier feel to a [...]

  Catching up with son ‘Mark’ of The Rifleman – BY AUDREY T. HINGLEY –    Johnny Crawford’s busy career began as one of the original Disney Mouseketeers. By the time he snagged the role of Chuck Connors’ son, Mark, on TV’s acclaimed The Rifleman at age 11, he’d already accumulated 60 television credits. Set in [...]

Who thought it would a good idea to hire a 71-year-old anchorman?   Last summer, I agreed to act as “guest anchor”at WRIC-TV for three months. The three months have come and gone. The question is, what next? Do I go away, or have I risen from the dead? I signed on believing that Channel 8 [...]

7 Stories of Hope: ‘It Was a Piece of Cake — Like Magic’ — Transcatheter valve replacement replaces open-heart surgery – BY PAULA NEELY AND ROB WALKER –    Last fall, Ronald Martin, an 82- year-old professor at Lynchburg College, had trouble breathing and walking from his car to his office. “Finally, I couldn’t walk [...]

7 Stories of Hope: ‘I Was Destined to Stay Here’ — New ventricular assisted device came along just in time for a damaged heart – BY DANIEL JONES –  In 2011, while visiting North Carolina, Louis “Pee Wee” W. Powers was rushed to the hospital after losing three times in a 24-hour period.  It was [...]

Editor’s Letter: Too Smart? Phones and constant social media enrich our lives … if by that you mean controlling every minute of them BY RAY McALLISTER Some technological advancements, everyone would agree, are life enhancers. Indoor plumbing. Heating and air conditioning. The telephone. Personal computers and the Internet, I think we could say unequivocally, are [...]

  A night at the Carpenter Theatre begins at sight of the building’s splendid façade. It’s where the magnificent edifice – built in the 1920s Spanish Baroque style –, in all its elegant luminance, pulls you in. Naturally. It’s quite an alluring presence. It was Saturday night, and with my ticket in hand I entered [...]